Clinical Operations Manager

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job purpose:

This role is accountable for building and leading high performing clinical research teams who partner with
investigative sites for meaningful and effective engagements, striving to position AbbVie as the partner of
choice in clinical trials.
Accountable for teams' clinical trial performance, providing strategic planning, oversight and direction of the
team to ensure on time, within budget and quality delivery of clinical studies.
Establish partnership with internal stakeholders to drive insightful and impactful interactions and promote the
value of the clinical research team through the contribution to the R&D portfolio success.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for the hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring, task assignment, growth, and development of their clinical research team.
• Provides leadership and oversight to the clinical research team.
• Utilizes AbbVie systems and tools to support assigned personnel to proactively address performance and mitigate risks.
• Ensures adherence to applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to quality standards in conducting clinical research. Stay abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies.
• Supports, trains, and oversees assigned personnel to ensure that they maintain audit and inspection readiness at assigned sites/studies. Prepares and follows up on site and country audits, CAPA preparation and implementation.
• Accountable for resource management for assigned team. Ensure resource utilization to address business priorities and maximize team impact to delivery of the pipeline.
• Accountable for the budget management and payments of the assigned studies conducted by their assigned Team.
• Leads and supports the team to understand the business strategy and vision. Drives and implements change through effective communication and management.
• May participate and/or lead global/local task forces and initiatives. Proactively identifies opportunities at local/ global levels and proposes solutions to create efficiencies and streamline/improve processes. Partners with research sites with high levels of coordinated and impactful site engagement with KOLs, National Leads, Principal Investigators and site staff positioning AbbVie as the partner of choice in clinical trials.
• May be assigned TA responsibility within an affiliate. Support training and Monitoring for team, develop and implement strategies to support Site and key opinion / National leader identification (including feasibility) to support AbbVie pipeline execution within the Country or Region.

• Education: Bachelors or equivalent degree, health related (e.g. Medical, Scientific, Nursing, Pharmacy) preferred.
• Monitoring (min. 3 years) & leading Team(s) experience.
• Very good command of English and local language.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate persuasively with clarity, collaboratively, and cross functionally. Demonstrates flexibility to changing requirements with the ability to establish and leverage relationships and trusted partnerships. Demonstrated proactive and positive team player.
• Exhibits strong planning and organizational skills. Experience across multiple therapeutic areas and study phases.
• Mentoring and coaching skills. Has the ability to provide transparent and timely feedback to raise the bar on individual and team performance.
• Drives innovation and continuous process improvement.
• Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and leadership values.
• Deals comfortably with risk and ambiguity, changing course when needed.
• Ability to make timely, high-quality decisions based on available data and information.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative/ownership. Ability to adapt and move quickly.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% working time.

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